Monthly Archives: November 2017

On October 31st, the NULab hosted its annual Speed Data-ing Event, designed to bring researchers and data sets together and help researchers think of new ways to use their data. Professors from multiple departments presented data sets and tools for working with them. A diverse array of projects were presented in lightning talks: “Bringing Domain Continue Reading »

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NuLab and Art + Design Assistant Professor Dietmar Offenhuber, the Program Coordinator for the Information Design and Visualization graduate offerings, has received the Austrian Scientists in North America (ASciNA) Award 2017, specifically given to young researches with excellent scientific publications. Offenhuber won the Young Principal Investigator prize, the primary award category, for his book Waste Is Information. Offenhuber’s Continue Reading »

On November 6th, the NULab, in conjunction with the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, hosted Professor Katy Pearce from the University of Washington. Pearce’s talk, “Socially-mediated Visibility in Authoritarianism,” focused on concepts of surveillance, social media, and political dissent in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, Pearce noted, is like the rest of the South Caucasus Continue Reading »

[A NULab and Shorenstein Center Event on #fakenews] Jacob Groshek, Professor of Communications at Boston University, presented at Northeastern University “Helping Populism Win? Social media use, filter bubbles, and support for populist presidential candidates in the 2016 US election campaign,” a talk investigating how social media use correlated with support for certain political candidates and ideologies during Continue Reading »

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On October 20th, the NULab hosted the “Making it Digital” assignment workshop co-sponsored by the New England Digital Scholarship Collective. The workshop featured instructors who use digital assignments in their classrooms; presenters discussed sample assignments, what worked well, the challenges they faced, and tips for structuring similar assignments. The first half of the workshop featured Continue Reading »